Members of Congress who voted to defund FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program one day before Helene hit: Sen. Budd (R-NC) Sen. Blackburn (R-TN) Sen. Hagerty (R-TN) Reps. Bean, Bilirakis, Cammack, Donalds, Gaetz, Lee, Luna, Mills, Posey, Waltz, Webster (R-FL) Rep. Bishop (R-NC)
What has disrupted the hegemonic control of information is social media, which has fractured media consumption, allowing apertures to emerge for direct testimony from the colonies. The hysteria around social media and particularly TikTok, foreign-owned, is directly related to this erosion 7/
Popped over to twitter for no reason other than I've been trained by these evil social media companies (this one included) to do it, & saw Elon blathering about & realized suddenly that he has a much much larger part of the brain that thinks hording money will save him from death than the rest of us
This is a rare one that hurts me. Go check out The Silver Tongued Devil & I and all his catalogue
The Harris campaign is betting that “We’ll kill your enemy, and kill your enemy’s kin, and erase their earthly presence” is a winning message for regular voters come November
if they unseat Ted Cruz I will play a free solo show in Austin and the set list will include Golden Boy, Riches & Wonders, Comandante and whatever other oldschool bangers ppl want
I’ve got really mixed feelings about Viet Thanh Nguyen’s work but his big novels (The Sympathizer and its sequel The Committed) do seem like readers for this moment
The "larger regional war" can only ever be approached asymptotically in Western media. Israel just iced one of the most important political leaders in Lebanon in massive carpet bombing. The US is regularly bombing Yemen. Missiles are coming at Israel from 3 directions. We're in the fucking war.
BREAKING NEWS: The militant group confirmed the death of its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut. The development marks a significant escalation many fear is inching towards a larger regional war.
The militant group confirmed the death of its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut. The development marks a significant escalation many fear is inching towards a larger regional war.
Carving 'let no one ignorant of Robert Caro's The Power Broker' into the lintel of the smuggest places on the internet
This is as scandalous as any of Trump's attacks on the administrative state, imo. www.propublica.org/article/gaza...
Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had de...